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. TAG. N0.323,472.' Patented Aug. 4, 1885 llNiTEn STATES PATENT tricee CLINTONY F. VEBSTER, OF BROGKTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 323,472, dated August 4, 1885.

l Application filed May 20, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that l, CLINTON F. WEBSTER, of Brockton, in the county of Plymouth, in the State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Tags, ot' which the following is a description snfiiciently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which said invention appertains to make and use the saine, reference being had to the accompanyings, forming part of this speciication, in which- Figure l is an isometrical perspective view of my improved tag, represented as closed; Fig. 2, a like view, representing it open; Fig. 3, a vertical longitudinal section taken on the line :v in Fig. l; and Fig. 4, an end view showing the guard or socket.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures of the drawings.

My invention relates more especially to that class of tags which are provided with pockets or envelopes; and it consists in a novel construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed, the object being to produce a more durable and otherwise desirable article of this character than is nonr in ordinary use.

The nature of the improvement will be readily understood by all conversant with such matters from the .following explanation, the extreme simplicity of the invention ren'- dering an elaborate description unnecessary,

In the drawings, A represents the body, B the ilap, and C the socket or guard. The socket or guard is preferably composed of the same materials as the body and flap A B, its ends and sides being integral or cut in one piece, and the ends overlapped and cemented or pasted down to one of the sides, as shown at fin Fig. 4C. It may, however, be made of any other suitable materials or in any other manner to properly perform the same funetions. An envelope, D, having one of its ends, f, opened, as shown in Fig. 2, is pasted or ce mentcd to the inner side of the body A, the free end of said body and the opposite end, 1r, of said envelope being inserted in said socket and secured thereto by an eyelet, o, which passes through said envelope, and also through the body A and lower side, i, of the socket G.

An eyelet, h, is inserted centrally in the outer or free end of the flap B, and there is also an eyelet, z, inserted centrally in the top r ot' the socket G, the eyelets h e being so disposed that When the iiap B is inserted in the socket, as shown in Fig. l, all of the eyelets will register, as shown in Fig. 8. The bottom ofthe socket C forms a reenforce for the eyelet c.

In the use of my improvement the bill or invoice is placed in the envelope I) and the tlap y sealed, if desired, after which the ila-p B is inserted in the socket G, and the cord or string by which the tag is secured to the goods passed through the eyelets, thereby securing the dap in the socket.

In folding tags provided with envelopes, When constructed in the ordinary manner, the envelope is liable to become detached from the body, especially at its free or outer end. rPhe free end of the iiap is also liable to be bent or turned up at the corners and torn.

My invention is designed to obviate these difficulties, the end of the envelope being firmly secured to the body and also the bottom i by the eyelet v, and both ends of the tag housed and protected from injury by the guard C.

It will be understood that the flap and body, one or both, may be printed, if desired, or theyT may be left blank for writing, as pre ferred.

I do not confine myself to the use of the envelope, as the socket may be used with the body A and flap B and the envelope omitted, it' desired, Without entirely' departing from the spirit of my improvement.

Having thus explained my invention, what I claim is l. In a folding tag, the combination of the following instrumentalities, to wit: a body, an envelope cemented or attached to the inner side of said body, a flap and a socket adapted to receive and protect the free ends of said body and iiap, the free end of the body being inserted in the socket and secured to the under side or bottom thereof by an eyelet, and the upper side or top of said socket, and also the free end of the iiap, being, respectively, provided with eyelets, all of which eyelets regis ter when the ends of the iiap and body are inserted in the socket, substantially as described.

2. In a folding tag provided with a socket,

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an envelope having one of its ends secured to z, constructed, combined, and arranged to oprhe free end of the body of the tag and to the erate substantially as described. bottom portion of the socket, substantially as Set forth. GLNTON lf. W ERSTER.

o 3. The improved folding tag herein de- Witnesses:

scribed, the same consisting of the body A, C. A. SHAW,

Hap B, envelope D, socket C, and eyelets h o L. J. WHITE. 

